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Yellow Shirt Math Lyrics Kid

Updated Jun 26, 2019 at 12:49PM EDT by Adam.

Added Jun 26, 2019 at 12:45PM EDT by Adam.

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About

Yellow Shirt Math Lyrics Kid refers to a clip of Nigerian actor Osita Iheme, best known for his role as "Paw-Paw" in the Aki and Paw-Paw series of Nigerian comedy films, going through a book and appearing to do math in his head. After the clip was posted to Twitter in June of 2019, it spread as a reaction clip akin to Math Lady and was used with people quoting lyrics of hip-hop songs that deal with numbers and equations.

Origin

The actor in the clip is Osita Iheme, playing Paw-Paw in one of the Nigerian Aki and Paw-Paw comedies of the mid-2000s. Iheme is an adult actor with dwarfism.^[1] On June 1st, 2019, Twitter user @emirlhakimi^[2] posted a clip of Iheme attempting to work out a math problem with the caption related to taking a math exam, gaining over 33,000 retweets and 20,000 likes (shown below).

exam math

Pengawas lalu and tengok

Me: Buat-buat pandai supaya tak nampak bodoh pic.twitter.com/FpjrlU29LP
— émirul (@emirlhakimi) June 1, 2019

Spread

On June 24th, the clip began seeing use as a reaction clip to people attempting to follow along with math-related lyrics in hip hop songs. That day, Twitter user @eleven8 posted the clip with lyrics from Nas' "One Mic," gaining over 1,600 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below, top). Twitter user @TheCreativeJC posted Kendrick Lamar lyrics with the clip, gaining over 31,000 retweets and 90,0000 likes (shown below, bottom).

Jesus died at age 33. That’s 33 shots from twin glocks. 16 a piece makes 32. Which means one of my guns was holding 17… pic.twitter.com/HXOpZJZUMc
— My Ancestors Always Have My Back (@eleven8) June 24, 2019

Nobody:
Kendrick Lamar:
Quantum physics could never show you the world I was in
When I was 10, back when 9 ounces had got you 10
And 9 times out of 10, n*ggas don’t pay a(10)tion
And when there’s (10)sion in the air, 9’s come with ex(10)sions pic.twitter.com/L5xchir9FZ
— Slim Bálor (@TheCreativeJC) June 24, 2019

The popularity of the memes led to a page on Twitter Moments.^[3] Other popular examples posted over the following two days include a tweet by @MatthewACherry that gained over 25,000 retweets and 83,000 likes (shown below, top) and a tweet by @iseeyouupthere that gained over 460 retweets and 1,600 likes (shown below, bottom).

My baby is a (Ten)
We dressing to the (Nine)
He pick me up, we (Eight)
Make me feel so lucky (Seven)
He kiss me in his (Six)
We be making love in (Five)
Still the one I do this (Four)
I’m tryna make us (Three)
From that (Two)
Still the (One)
pic.twitter.com/kav5jIYPBZ
— Matthew A. Cherry 🏁 (@MatthewACherry) June 24, 2019

Me when Drake said the square root of 69 is 8 something
pic.twitter.com/rpnCa25Gtm
— PROCEED WITH #CAUTION⚠️ (@iseeyouupthere) June 25, 2019

Various Examples

Fort Minor: This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will
5% pleaure, 50% pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Me: pic.twitter.com/sCL9xf8Lx7
— Josh Toussaint (@josh2saint) June 25, 2019

Jay Z:
Turn that 62 to 125
125 to a 250
250 to a half a mil
Ain’t nothin nobody could do w me

Me in 6th grade: pic.twitter.com/g99xRzNuaO
— Ultra.1 ✨ (@ultrachameleon) June 25, 2019